Out of Time in North Korea

There is a growing consensus that the first genuine crisis of Donald Trump’s presidency could involve North Korea. Strategic patience, the approach toward the Korean Peninsula that has characterized successive US administrations since the early 1990s, has run its course.

NEW YORK – There is a growing consensus that the first genuine crisis of Donald Trump’s presidency could involve North Korea and, more specifically, its ability to place a nuclear warhead on one or more ballistic missiles possessing sufficient range and accuracy to reach the continental United States. A crisis could stem from other factors as well: a large increase in the number of nuclear warheads that North Korea produces, evidence that it is selling nuclear materials to terrorist groups, or some use of its conventional military forces against South Korea or US forces stationed there.

There is no time to lose: any of these developments could occur in a matter of months or at most years. Strategic patience, the approach toward North Korea that has characterized successive US administrations since the early 1990s, has run its course.

One option would be simply to accept as inevitable continued increases in the quantity and quality of North Korea’s nuclear and missile inventories. The US, South Korea, and Japan would fall back on a combination of missile defense and deterrence.

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China is the only country that can solve the nuclear problem in North Korea. It will only be solved when they finally realize that it is their problem and they have more to lose than anyone else in WWIII. Only then will they act. Trump and Putin should quietly go to China and tell them time is up and have them cause a regime change.

We over-complicate the NK issue. Search on "what does North Korea want" and read. SK or we would never agree with NK demands. Negotiation with NK plays into its strategy, giving it time to develop increasingly dangerous weapons.

The sane nations of the world need to choose: take action to end the NK regime, likely resulting in the loss of many lives or wait and sacrifice many more lives in the future. How long does a victim of cancer, having no other choice than death, wait to agree to radical cancer surgery?

Whatever our course of action, China will do what China will do. To deal with the increasing madness of a lunatic leader in NK, we should ignore China. China must decide (and probably already has decided) if NK is worth WWIII and the loss of huge foreign markets for its goods. Loss of those export markets would put China out of business and result in domestic chaos. KISS.

Since China signed on to the Iran accord sponsored by the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, it may be useful to explore the ways in which the same group may be able to forge an agreement governing the threat of nuclear weapon use on the Korean peninsula.

Deployment of the THAAD system seems the right response. if it neutralizes the North Korean missile program and threatens China, then it leaves China in a weaker strategic position, with more of an interest in stopping the North Korean missile program before the THAAD system is deployed more broadly in countries on China's borders. With Trump as US President, and no South Korean President, it probably makes most sense to just wait while letting the THAAD missile deployment weigh on the situation.

Use your search engine on "what does north korea want" and read. Negotiation with NK plays into its strategy, giving it time to develop increasingly dangerous weapons. No negotiated settlement will change NK’s goals, nor will SK or we ever agree to what NK wants. We, SK , and our allies need to decide soon whether to use violence to bring the end to the NK regime. Our and our allies’ choice is to participate in the loss of many lives today or many more lives next year. Either way, China will do what China will do and we will prepare for the worst. China must decide if NK is worth WWIII.

The Kim Dynasty rules in North Korea because China allows it to rule. China and South Korea have been on increasingly warm terms -- economically and culturally -- until we decided to move anti-missile missiles into South Korea. Presumably, the new government in the South will be a center-left government that will ask the U.S. to remove those missiles in order for Seoul to patch up relations with Beijing.

The U.S. then must find a way to get China to remove Kim Chung-un. We have lots of enticements to offer: Removing our troops from South Korea, coming to an accommodation on China's aggressiveness in the South China Sea, getting South Korea to state that it has no ambitions of taking over the North militarily or politically.

Another war on the Korean Peninsula is not an option for the South Koreans, and shouldn't be an option for us.

General Mattis and all the North Korea experts out there should make "Reunification of the Peninsula" the only game in town. I have been advocating for this policy for North Korea since the year 2000. (I counselled this whilst in Jerusalem in 2012.)

Also, nearly all the North Korea experts are ignoring the message and command of the BIRD FLU outbreak now. South Korea and North Korea are being hit with a cocktail of Bird Flu viruses now: H5N1/6/8 & H7N9. The situation is very serious.

North Korea is also being hit badly by Bird Flu. It is just that there is a lockdown on the media there.

North Korea's sabre rattling, and now this hit in KL, is both a message and a command.

A cry for help.

도움을 얻기위한 외침

The best way to deal with the North Korea now is via the application of a balance of Sefirotic Modalities.

Read the true story of Sungju Lee. I agree with him regarding KOREAN reunification.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37914493

P.S. Because time is linear and expansive, some festering global problems just have to be dealt with. (See "Keitz Time" by Rav Winston)

The terrible decisions that led to the Korean Peninsula being separated have to be be corrected now. A series of moves are required now to solve the Korean Cube. An Algorithm of:

A few things might be certain: We are dealing with a country totally different from Iran: There will be no prospect and hope that the longer we wait, the better the situation will be: North Korea will never relinquish its nuclear weapons unless we force it to, and perhaps we can never be able to force it to give them up by any means short of forces.

There has been speculative thought that though China does not like Kim Jong-un, a nuclear North Korea would not be necessarily a bad option for it because it would confound the United States and its allies.

Good article. The problem is that China would probably like to see changes in South Korea in return for unification and changes in North Korea; e.g., the removal of U.S. troops and, possibly, the demilitarization of the entire peninsula. If that's unacceptable to the US and it's allies, then it's probably best to wait for changes in China or North Korea that would weaken one or the other.

There are only two countries to blame for the situation on the Korean peninsula and that is North Korea and the USA. America has given N Korea every reason to expect imminent invasion and destruction by the US, and they are acting accordingly. If there is ever going to be a peaceful solution then America will have to stop supporting the deeply corrupt regime in the South and allow the North to pursue it's communist ideals, if they still have any. Perhaps sanctions against the US might force it to the negotiating table to seek a peaceful solution and defuse the nuclear threat. Other that that, there is no need for N Korea to obtain missiles that can reach continental USA, all they need to do is reach the US military bases in the pacific, who have their weapon systems aimed at them, which is much easier. A strike against any of those bases will also quickly erode their support in those countries, who might not feel comfortable with having become a nuclear target.

Before we can solve the problem of N. Korea we have to solve the problem of Israel and the Arabs? Sure, that should only take a few days, maybe a week. And then, havingfsolved the issues with Israel and the Arabs, how exactly do we deal with N. Korea?

Some problems have no easy solutions and how to deal with a North Korea that is again threatening war is one of them. The proximity of Seoul to the world's most heavily armed border would let the North Koreans cause a lot of casualties and damage in the initial stages of an attack.

It is very important America and people throughout the world realize and internalize the potential for a million or more dead North Koreans and many of their neighbors to the south, this does make this situation dire indeed. The article below was written as sort of a short "Korean 101" course for those wanting the basics.

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